Clos-o-Mat -
Unique Location for Changing Places

Kelvin Hall - Wheelchair-Accessible Toilet - Assisted Disabled Toilet

A unique project is bringing "excellence to all" -
including disabled people.

Kelvin Hall in Glasgow has re-opened following a £35million
revamp. The new venue brings together civic, higher education
and national organisations under one roof. It now houses
1.5million pieces from Glasgow’s civic collection, Glasgow
University’s Hunterian Museum, the National Library of
Scotland’s Moving Image Archive, and have a new role as a
cultural, research and training centre.

And it also includes a state-of-the-art
wheelchair-accessible, assisted toilet facility, supplied and
installed by Clos-o-Mat.

The toilet means that anyone for whom a conventional
wheelchair-accessible toilet isn’t suitable can now enjoy the
benefits of Kelvin Hall, relaxed in the knowledge there are
suitable toilet facilities to hand. Based on a Changing Places
toilet, for people who need the help of at least one carer, the
room has the additional space, adult-sized height adjustable
changing bench, privacy screen and ceiling track hoist that are
required fixtures in a Changing Places; it further has a
Clos-o-Mat Palma Vita wash and dry toilet, instead of a
traditional WC, and a height adjustable washbasin.

"Kelvin Hall is now a world-leading facility, which brings
together civic, higher education and national organisations
under one roof. It is excellence available to all,” explained
special projects team leader Robert Gartshore.

"The assisted accessible toilet demonstrates that excellence
for all: it delivers all the extra care equipment that helps
people who need assistance with their intimate hygiene, and, by
replacing the conventional WC with a Clos-o-Mat that washes and
dries the user so they don’t have to manually wipe, we are
further extending the useability and raising the level of
hygiene available."

Adds Kelvin Grimes, Clos-o-Mat’s away from home washroom
project manager, "Changing Places toilets are designed to meet
the needs of anyone who needs a carer’s help to go to the loo,
ranging from a wheelchair-bound child or adult to morbidly
obese. But the equipment within, especially when the traditional
loo is replaced with a wash & dry toilet, extends its
suitability to literally millions of other people- those with
incontinence issues, stoma, for example."

Under latest Building Regulations and good practice
guidelines, a Changing Places toilet is ‘desirable’ in buildings
to which numbers of the public have access. Since their
introduction a decade ago, 850+ have been opened across the UK.
Under British Standards, a Changing Places is in addition to
conventional (Building Regulations Document M) wheelchair
accessible toilets, and provides 12m², with additional equipment
including an adult-sized height adjustable changing bench and
ceiling track hoist.

Clos-o-Mat is Britain’s biggest provider of fully accessible
toilets, in domestic environments and ’away from home’,
including a substantial number of Changing Places facilities,
and their smaller, counterpart Space to Change toilets.